This Political Psychology Final Exam assesses understanding of foundational concepts like tabula rasa, behaviorism, and dispositionism. It explores the intersection of personality studies and political behaviors, reflecting on historical and theoretical frameworks.
Conditioning
Behavior
The Clear Mind
The Blank Slate
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Most of them thought his tricky experimental design amusing
It was a nervous reaction to stress
Most actually enjoyed shocking the learner
None of the above
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His behavior in other areas of life wasn't particularly ethical
He was himself Jewish
He did not believe in dispositionism himself
He was an especially close friend of Adolf Eichmann
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Voluntary responses
Reflexes
Salivation
All of the above
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Involuntary responses
Voluntary responses
Salivation alone
None of the above
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Denial
Projection
Repression
All of the above
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Foreign-Policy decision making
International Politics
Personality Studies
Voting Behavior
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The real subject of the experiment
Milgram himself
An accomplice of the experimenter
Someone who had no idea what the real purpose of the experiment was
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Negative
Operant
Classical
Positive
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He did not think the national media were being fair
He was worried that the shuttle itself had been badly constructed
He was worried about the below-freezing temperatures that were forecast for the morning of the launch
He thought that too many of NASA's managers were 'running around like Chicken Little'
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Stronger, more opinion-driven leadership
Bring in independent advisers from outside the group
Quicker consideration of options
Create a warmer, more 'clubby' atmosphere
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He was worried about the below-freezing temperatures that were forecast for the morning of the launch
He was worried that the shuttle itself had been badly constructed
He did not think the national media were being fair
He thought that too many of NASA's managers were 'running around like chicken little'
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Cognitive consistency theory
Homo Economicus
Schema Theory
Satisficing
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The early tug of war between eugenics and behaviorism
Behaviorism alone
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments
Eugenics alone
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The ego
The id
The superego
None of the above
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George W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
John Foster Dulles
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Dispositionism
Milgram's School of situationism
Behaviorism
Supporters of the idea that people are born genetically 'wired' with certain attributes
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We allow the id free rein
We resort to the superego
We resort to defense mechanism
We become conscious of all our unconscious processes
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There were good guards and bad guards
Bags were placed on the heads of the prisoners
Sexual humiliation was used by the guards
The worst abuses occured on the night shift
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Diabetes
A series of strokes
Sleep apnia
Syphilis
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They displace their public problems onto private life
They displace their private problems onto public life
They cannot be understood psychologically
Psychobiography always falls victim to the problem of reductionism
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The behavior of 'Little Albert'
The behavior of Stanley Milgram's obedient subjects
The behavior of B.F. Skinner's pigeons
The behavior of Stanley Milgram's disobedient subjects
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Situationism
Behaviorism
Dispositionism
Anarchism
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Our behavior is shaped by forces beyond our control
Our own psychological values and beliefs shape our behavior
'The situation' affects our behavior somewhat
We often quickly dispose of arguments we disagree with
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The tendency of Milgram's subjects to blindly obey
Difficulties with the rational actor model
Skinner's failed attempts to condition his subjects
The tendency of Zimbardo's subjects to 'go bad'
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The tendency of Milgram's subjects to blindly obey
Difficulties with the rational actor model
The tendency of Zimbardo's subjects to 'go bad'
None of the above
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Conditions inside the Nevada prison system
Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting colleague
The Abu Ghraib scandal
The entire war in Iraq
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It was dominated by cognitive psychological approaches
It was dominated by personality studies
It was dominated by Freudian/psychoanalytics theory
One of its earliest advocates was the political scientist Harold Laswell
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Behaviorism
Eugenics
Situationism
Bounded Rationality
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The Cuban missile crisis
9/11
The murder of Kitty Genovese
Solomon Asch's experiments
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Stanley Milgram in Obedience to Authority
Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange
B.F. Skinner in Walden Two
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Psychoanalytic theory
Cognitive consistency theory
Attribution theory
Groupthink
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Attribution theory
Schema theory
Cognitive consistency theory
Groupthink
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Sexual humiliation was used by the guards
Trophy photos were taken
A 'John Wayne' figure emerged
Bags were placed on the heads of prisoners
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The effectiveness of classical conditioning
The fact that conditioning often fails
The moral problems associated with conditioning
The effectiveness of operant conditioning
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Men were substantially more likely than women to obey authority
Men were slightly more likely than women to obey authority
Women were more likely than men to obey authority
Gender made no difference
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The 1990s
The 1940s
The 1970s
The 1920s
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Its strongest supporter was Stanley Milgram
It blames the characteristics of Germans themselves for the Holocaust
It argues that situational forces caused the Holocaust
It argues that most ordinary
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Dispositionism
Situationism
Homo Economicus
Freudian psychoanalytic theory
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The sexual impulse
The aggressive impulse
Both A and B
His own lifelong love of cigars
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Homo Economicus
Homo Psychologicus
Cognitive consistency theory
The rational actor approach
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The chief experimenter was also the 'warden'
They may not have been ethical
There was insufficient variation in the experimental conditions to draw reliable conclusions
All of the above
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A mindguard
A dissenter
A paranoid
A narcissist
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Woodrow Wilson and Colonel house
The Dysfunctional President
Bush on the Couch
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Those of Oskar Schindler
The way in which obedience fell when tasks were parceled out in Milgram's experiments
The way in which obedience rose when tasks were parceled out in Milgram's experiments
Those of Hannah Arendt
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It rose markedly to 80%
It fell to about 20%
It rose only slightly
It stayed the same
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The Prospective Voting School
The Minessota School
The Issue Voting School
The Party Identification School
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It suggests that there is a thin line between good and evil
It suggests that we are all capable of evil
It suggests that we should not categorize human beings as falling into fixed, unchangeable categories
All of the above
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